The cuddly duo return with a gloriously benign and rounded second album that bolsters their life-affirming house with golden-brown ballads (Modern Family), Coalitition-bashing digital reggae (Money Man) and a pulsing hybrid of Afrobeat, house and hip-hop (Son of the Sun). We knew about Joe

Balding and unassuming, Dan Snaith looks less like a pop star and more like the kind to write a doctoral thesis on Overconvergent Siegel Modular Symbols (which he did, in 2005, at Imperial College London). Yet the idea of this Canadian mathematician-cum-musician becoming a proper star is not quite

News to delight backwards-talking dwarfs, strokers of logs and lovers of damn fine coffee everywhere — the wondrous, revolutionary Twin Peaks is to return for a third series, 25 years after the second. There isn’t much to go on, as befits a show that never spoon-fed its audience with superfluous

The Horrors’ metamorphosis from comically doom-laden Edward Scissorhands lookalikes to respected purveyors of dark, questing synth-rock has been one of the more striking musical reinventions of recent years. So striking, that they must be a bit embarrassed that they’re called the Horrors. It’s also

Despite a title that’s almost as pun-tastically awful as Public Enemy’s Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age, the second of Prince’s two-album fusillade is quite lovely. While its sister record PlectrumElectrum is full of bone-crunching guitar riffs this one gives vent to the Purple One’s twinklier side, from

It’s rare for a rock band to appeal equally to both sexes but a good half of the 7,000 punters at the 1975’s biggest show to date were women. Part of that might be down to the lush melodiousness of their music. They should really be called the 1985, so copious are their influences from that decade

Talk about setting the scene. Before this short, hit-packed set by Spandau Ballet, the audience and thousands more watching in cinemas via link-ups, were shown the premiere of Soul Boys of the Western World, the documentary that follows the band from New Romantic taste-makers to world-conquering

Sarah Gadon, 27, is one of the most sought-after young actors in Hollywood and a muse for her fellow Canadian, David Cronenberg, having starred in three of his films: A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis and his new release, Maps to the Stars, as the ghost of the mother of Julianne Moore’s fading movie

Actor Kate Hudson, 35, is the daughter of Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson, but was raised by Hawn and Kurt Russell. She was nominated for an Oscar for playing a groupie in Almost Famous. She has a son, Bing, with her fiancé, Matt Bellamy of the band Muse, and another, Ryder, from her marriage